Caves and Caving in the UK

Caving Regions

• Scotland
• England:
• Yorkshire
• Derbyshire
• Mendips
• Devon and Cornwall
• Wales
• Ireland

Articles about caving

• So you want to go caving?
• Breakfast for cavers
• Legal aspects of going underground

Cave conservation

• Protect our caves
• Cave Conservation
• Bats Underground
• Lost Caves of Britain video.

National bodies

• British Cave Research Association (BCRA)
• National Caving Association (NCA)

Special Interest groups

• Cave Radio and Electronics Group (CREG)
• Cave Surveying
• Explosives User Group (EUG)
• Photography
• Hydrology
• SpeleoHistory
• Cave Diving Group (CDG)
• Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO)
• National Association of Mining History Organisations (NAMHO)
• Bat Conservation Trust

Caving clubs

• Craven Pothole Club (CPC; Yorkshire)
• Grampian Speleological Group (GSG; Scotland)
• Cambridge Caving and Climbing Club (CCCC)
• Wessex Cave Club (Somerset)

Other information

• Hidden Earth, the 1996 BCRA Conference.
• Cave Artists - call for submissions.
• Equipment suppliers in the UK.
• Leadership and Instructor training and qualifications.
• Artificial caves
• LUSS Expeditions:
• Canada 1994
• Spain
• Spain 1995

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Articles on other servers

• Lots of links to other cave-related sites.
• Cave-related events calendar of world-wide interest
• Cave and Karst terminology
• Caving Glossary
• Cave rescue guide
• Alpine-style SRT manual
• SRT rigging guide
• Cave Diving manual (Currently in Italian only)
• Draft IUCN Document on Cave and Karst Protection
• Request for comments on above IUCN Document

What's new

• 1 August 1996: Major update to Hidden Earth 96 (BCRA Conference) pages.
• 15 July 1996: Major update to CREG pages.
• 27 June 1996: Additions to surveying pages from Wookey.
• 24 June 1996: Tidied up CRO reports (using HTML tables).
• 19 June 1996: Added contents of issue 72 of Caves and Caving.
• 20 May 1996: Added a map of the caves of Assynt
• 15 May 1996: Added contents of issue 22.3 of Cave and Karst Science.
• 13 May 1996: Added contents of journal 24 of CREG.
  Updated CREG membership and ordering information
• 08 May 1996: Added the WCC
  Added a full list of the BCRA Cave Studies Series publications.
• 30 Apr 1996: Added details of field meet, May 1996.
• 23 Apr 1996: Added Bats Underground plus small changes to some other pages.
• 15 Apr 1996: Added contents of issue 71 of Caves and Caving.
• 11 Apr 1996: Updated Photography Group information.
• 25 Mar 1996: Added a diary of UK events.
• 27 Feb 1996: Added contents of journal 23 of CREG.
• 19 Feb 1996: Extracted some interesting descriptions of Yorkshire.
• 14 Feb 1996: Added contents of issue 22.2 of Cave and Karst Science.
• 25 Jan 1996: Added contents of issue 70 of Caves and Caving.
• 18 Dec 1995: Many changes, and lots of additions. Please check that you don't have any bookmarks to pages that have moved!

Previous contents of What's new can be found on the What's Old page.

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